If in 2024 somebody had suggested something like this might happen, they would have been accused of hysterical scaremongering.
#USPolitics #USHigherEducation #Texas #TexasAAndM #Plato #Symposium #Censorship #Philosophy #RightWing #Universities #AcademicFreedom
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/save-student-loan-payment-pause.html
For many Americans, this vindictive measure will occasion hardship, anxiety, and hours of form filling.
I hope it costs the Republicans lots of votes at the midterms.
#USPolitics #USHigherEducation #StudentLoans #SAVE #DonaldTrump #LindaMcMahon #ProtectBorrowers
US Advocates of "viewpoint diversity" in academia might like to turn their attention to university departments of economics.
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#USPolitics #USHigherEducation #Economics #Neoclassical #HeterodoxEconomics #ViewpointDiversity
Texas conservatives are busy destroying academic freedom in higher education.
The failure of the university's president to stand up for the faculty member under attack and for the principle of academic freedom is appalling.
#USHigherEducation #Universities #TexasAAndM #AcademicFreedom #MelissaMcCoul #MarkWelsh #BrianHarrison
In connection with the post I have just made, https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115012825619331824, I note that there are many aspects of the disappearing DEI culture which I will not miss.
These include shadow history and sociology teaching by student life departments, mandatory reading of Robin DiAngelo, and the use of overexpansive definitions of "harm" and "violence" to police speech on campus.
Yet however headline catching these and similar follies have been, they should not distract our attention from the real target of the assault on DEI, the progress made by Black Americans since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
With regard to higher education, Trump and the Claremont Right want to roll back anything other than vestigial gains, by effectively excluding Black Americans from the most prestigious colleges and universities and shunting them off instead into what is little more than a glorified vo-tech track.
In a updated re-enactment of the Du Bois / Booker T Washington debate, the White right will find some allies amongst those Black conservatives who will welcome a return to "business" and "entrepreneurship".
I believe that this push by the right is an ugly attempt to deprive Black Americans of their fair share of the security, wealth, and honor conferred by graduation from prestigious institutes of higher education.
Progressives should oppose this rollback. Rather than lamenting the end of "diversity", we should be thinking of how best to remedy the injustices consequent on the subjugation of African Americans.
Affirmative action for African Americans in higher education is one measure that almost certainly must play a part in this remedy. It might be unpopular, it might have to to be narrowed, its legal and political justification will certainly have to be rethought, but it cannot be abandoned as we think about an America after Trump.
#USPolitics #USHigherEducation #DEI #AffirmativeAction #AfricanAmericans #Progressives
This sale sounds like a desperate move. I don't have an off-the-cuff plan for rescuing struggling small colleges, but I suspect this sale, far from turning things around for Albright, will diminish its reputation amongst donors and potential future students and also deprive the campus of an important resource.
Albright College is Selling Its Art Collection to Balance Its Books
This bill was introduced by Republican Cody Harris, who back in 2019 was a sponsor of another bill noting that
"freedom of expression is of critical importance and requires each public institution of higher education to ensure free, robust, and uninhibited debate and deliberations by students enrolled at the institution, regardless of whether the students are on or off campus".
Bill Would Ban Teaching DEI Topics in Many College Classrooms: Proposal targets lessons on systemic racism - News - The Austin Chronicle
#Texas #USHigherEducation #USPolitics #Republicans #CodyHarris #AcademicFreedom
The Trump goon squad kidnap of Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk has rightly been seen as an attack on civil liberties and the rule of law in general.
In addition, the damage that this and similar abductions and harassment are doing to US higher education should be noted. Students and faculty alike benefit from hearing the views of international students, both inside and outside the classroom. Now many of those students will be afraid to speak their minds. Their freedom of speech is stifled, and the equally important right of other students and faculty to hear a range of uncensored opinions is also diminished.
#USPolitics #USHigherEducation #RumeysaOzturk #USUniversities #FirstAmendment
Have you ever wondered about the relevance of Greek myth to life in the 21st century USA?
The image on this hydria might help you, be you student or contributor, make sense of FAFSA, CSS, financial aid in general...
Herakles & the Lernaean Hydra (Illustration) - World History Encyclopedia
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2845/herakles--the-lernaean-hydra/
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